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I sort of dismissed Laura Marling early on because her songs brought my inner 16-year-old emo-shuffling right on out, and that was ugh, but she’s just too great to ignore.
Unexpected trip home meant unexpected trip to the used bookstore with Dad’s store credit.
"I’ve spent the past week—as I’ve spent much of the past few years—wanting only for the world to go away, for all engagements to be canceled, and to have more time with my family. It’s almost as if the desire for community is a nostalgic one; and the reality, with time’s winged chariot hurrying near, is that one longs increasingly for simple affections, for space, and calm, and time to work. What contradictory beings humans are."
Claire Messud
This is important to hear every now and then.
"For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in ‘The Corrections’? Any of the characters in ‘Infinite Jest’? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘is this character alive?’"
novelist Claire Messud, when asked by Publisher’s Weekly if she would want to be friends with the “unbearably grim” main character of her new book. (via washingtonpoststyle)
(via washingtonpoststyle)
One of the best.
I’ll Be Here in the Morning | Townes Van Zandt
(Source: bsparrow, via thatkindofwoman)
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
“This is the issue is the first issue. … I get this sense of impossibility, but I don’t buy it.”
